Seva Special School

“Striving for Excellence”
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part of the SEVA CARE GROUP  

BEHAVIOUR

As a school that caters for pupils with extremely complex needs, often the result of experiencing trauma during the early years, it is imperative to identify the root cause of any behaviour in order to support their social and emotional needs. Therefore, it is of the highest importance that policies regarding behaviour and supporting emotional needs are flexible, effective and centred on building positive relationships and being endlessly positive.
 
Our pupils also have histories of rejection and exclusion from previous educational settings. In order to meet our pupils’ complex needs, they are often taught 1:1 in satellite locations and work towards being able to access a small classroom environment when they are ready.

Because of the complexities and uniqueness of the behaviour and challenges we face; we have two simple expectations that act as our school rules:

• We respect each other, our school and ourselves
  
• We always try our best

To ensure this is effective, we have a well organised and supportive team who use a combination of strategies to support, encourage and reward behaviour that is conducive to learning and focuses on achievements and values wherever possible.

Each pupil is supported differently but the key principles for all support will include:

• Unconditional positive regard for our pupils and everyone we work with
• Caring relationships with staff that are underpinned by positive support, appropriate boundaries and empathy
• Consideration of any need that is not being met and the possible years of difficulty that has led the pupil to their current situation and level of need
• Communication that is clear, consistent and positive (or in some cases, appropriately passive)
• Consistency in support, interactions and (high) expectations for behaviour and learning – being predictable is very important
• Co-operation with pupils to explore their emotions and reflect on how they may have been feeling and working together to overcome challenges or difficult behaviours

To find out more read our policies.

Policies

Behaviour Policy

Anti Bullying Policy

​Anti-bullying
 
Seva Special School Anti-bullying policy is to prevent bullying of any sort and to ensure that everyone can operate in a supportive, caring, and safe environment without fear of being bullied.
 
All members of the community, including teaching and non-teaching staff, students and parents should have an understanding of what bullying is and be familiar with the School policy on bullying: therefore the aim is to help members of the school community to deal with bullying when it occurs and, even more importantly, to prevent it.
 
Bullying is an anti-social behaviour which affects everyone; it is unacceptable, and it will not be tolerated. Everyone in the community has a responsibility to report any incident of bullying that comes to their attention and these reports will always be taken seriously. Bullying is ongoing, deliberate behaviour that upsets the victim. It is behaviour that is targeted and selective and can be direct (physical or verbal) or indirect (e.g. being ignored or cyber bullying). It may be one person or a group.
 
At Seva Special school we believe that every pupil has the right to feel safe in school and enjoy their education without the threat of bullying* behaviour. Our approach is to build the pupil’s self-esteem and confidence and for our approach to be consistent across the school.
 
We intend that the policy is clearly understood and shared by all, pupils, staff and parents. The anti-bullying policy takes its place within the general aims of the school. It has close links to the SEAL, Child Protection, Behaviour, Anti-racism and PSHEE policies and is set within the framework of The Every Child Matters Agenda.
 
Incidents of bullying are taken extremely seriously and are recorded in the School Incident Log and our Anti-bulling Policy is followed, when dealing with incidents.

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